Most people who come to me have already tried a lot of things, the don’t realise always the lifestyle and sleep quality are intimately connected. A different pillow. Magnesium. A sleep app. Cutting caffeine after noon.
You can walk into a room and feel your shoulders drop. You can walk into another and feel something in you brace. Neither response is imagination, and neither is a personality quirk. Your nervous system reads your surroundings continuously, light, order, texture, unfinished tasks in visual range, and it adjusts your internal state to match what it finds. Most people treat their environment as a backdrop to their life. Physiologically, it is closer to an instruction.
This matters for sleep more than almost anyone acknowledges, because the system that lets you sleep deeply is the same system that has been reading your rooms all day.
When you think to yourself ‘why breathing exercises don’t work’
You cannot see the pattern you’re standing in!
Nervous system regulation for sleep
I was out with a group of women last week and we talked about nervous system regulation for sleep. The conversation often turns to sleep,
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